The Arts Office, Waterford City & County Council is pleased to offer a six week writing course with the poet Kathy D’Arcy.

Crafting Poetry

This course will run on Tuesday evenings in the Round Tower Hotel, Ardmore, Co. Waterford from 6pm to 8pm. 15th /22nd /29th September 13th & 20th October and will conclude on 3rd November 2015.

This course with award-winning poet and writing teacher Kathy D'Arcy will work through various elements of theme, form, structure and technique in poetry, using examples from well-known poets and exciting, generative assignments. Work developed during the course will be discussed and constructively critiqued within the group, and we will also look at the process of sending pieces away for publication.

Kathy D'Arcy is a young Cork poet whose collections Encounter (Lapwing), and The Wild Pupil (Bradshaw) were published in 2010 and 2012 respectively. In 2013 she was awarded an Arts Council Literature Bursary, and in 2014 she received an Irish Research Council Award to undertake a PhD in Creative Writing in University College Cork, where she also teaches with the Creative Writing and Women's Studies programmes. D'Arcy originally qualified and worked as a doctor, and now runs creative writing groups for adults and young people. She is also a playwright, and her play 'This is my Constitution' was staged in Dáil Éireann in 2013 at an Irish parliamentary briefing on constitutional change. She has worked with Waterford’s Arts Office on various school and adult literature projects.

'among the best poems I have read in years' - Thomas McCarthywww.kathydarcy.com